NEW YORK — A full postseason share for the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers totaled $477,441, down from the winner’s amount in 2022 and 2023.
The pool of $129.1 million in the third year of expanded playoffs set a record, topping $107.8 million last year, the commissioner’s office said Tuesday.
The Dodgers voted for 79 full shares, 17.49 partial shares and $405,000 in cash awards in dividing a pool of $46.47 million. The 96.49 full-share equivalent was up from 76.56 last year when the Texas Rangers split $38.81 million and a full share was worth $506,263. The Dodgers also voted the most share equivalents last year at 94.04, when they lost in the Division Series.
Houston received a record full share of $516,347 in 2022, when the Astros divided their pool into 59 full shares, 14.14 partial shares and $940,000 in cash awards.
A full share for the AL champion New York Yankees came to $354,572, up from $313,634 for Arizona last year when the Diamondbacks lost the World Series to Texas. The Yankees had 71 full shares and 16.38 partial shares for 87.38 full share equivalents.
The full shares for other playoff teams this year: Cleveland ($182,663); New York Mets ($179,948); Detroit ($55,729); Philadelphia ($52,278); Kansas City ($49,583); San Diego ($45,985); Baltimore ($11,870); Houston ($10,749); Milwaukee ($10,013); and Atlanta ($9,548).
The pool includes 60% of gate receipts from the first first four games of the World Series and League Championship Series, the first three games of each Division Series and the first two games of each wild-card Series. For each visiting team in the wild-card Series, travel expenses of up to $100,000 per club are deducted.
The World Series champion gets 36% of the pool, the losing World Series team 24%, each LCS loser 12%, each Division Series loser 3.3% and each wild-card Series loser 0.8%.
Source: www.espn.com